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Football referee's gaffe, colonialism legacy and danger of a single story

Africa Cup of Nations - Group F - Tunisia v Mali - Limbe Omnisport Stadium, Limbe, Cameroon - January 12, 2022 Tunisia coach Mondher Kebaier remonstrates with the referee Janny Sikazwe after the match [Reuters, Mohamed Abd El Ghany]

After all is said and done, we have to agree that the West still holds Africa in subtle contempt and increasingly interprets our affairs through the same prism that it did between 1445 and 1870 during the era of slavery.

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